Sr. Legal & Compliance Manager

Novo Nordisk Hongkong (NNHK)

Location: Hongkong

The Position

1. Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements

• Monitor and interpret relevant laws, regulations, and standards to ensure the organisation operates within legal boundaries;
• Collaborate with departments to implement and audit compliance programs in line with global and local standards;
• Design, test and monitor compliance control points within company SOPs; Streamline the global and local compliance frameworks to align with regulatory and ethical requirements in enhancing control effectiveness.

2. Provide legal counsel and support to HK business operations

• Advise on corporate law, contracts, intellectual property, other business and commercial related legal matters (e.g. partnerships, joint ventures);
• Support business transactions, negotiations, and dispute resolution processes;
• Approve branded and unbranded materials.

3. Manage risk assessment and mitigation strategies

• Conduct proactive compliance risk assessments and identify potential legal and compliance risks and develop strategies to address them;

• Regularly review and update risk management plans to align with evolving regulations;
• Lead cross-functional projects to optimize control setups for compliance risk mitigation and business effectiveness;
• Ensure that local law and global TEN requirements are reflected in local compliance templates and materials.

4. Oversee internal audits and reporting processes

• Conduct and utilize various auditing approach to evaluate adherence to legal and compliance standards as well as policy execution;
• Prepare and present reports on audit findings to enhance internal control and recommend corrective actions;
• Maintain regular communication and strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including the Compliance office of Region China, GIA, and Risk office
• Oversee the GIA BE compliance audit and implement action plans for audit findings.

5. Local data protection responsibilities

• Maintain and update personal data overviews in compliance with local laws and global standards;
• Cascade communications from the Data Protection Office (DPO) and facilitate knowledge sharing;
• Assess risks associated with personal data processing and advise on related issues;

• Support the DPO in responding to data breaches and coordinate local responses per global plans; Assist the DPO in interactions with local Data Protection Authorities;
• Create awareness around AI Ethics & Data Privacy requirements;
• Advise affiliate on issues related to AI and Data Privacy;

• Support with personal data breach mitigation and with data subject requests (DSR).

6. Foster ethical business practices across the organisation

• Promote a culture of integrity and accountability through communication and leadership; Address ethical concerns and ensure alignment with the organisation’s values and policies;
• Provide timely training on policy changes, competition law, risks, and procedural updates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law or related discipline, with relevant professional certification is preferred.
• Qualified lawyer in Hong Kong with practicing certificate; having PRC legal background and/or holding a PRC legal qualification is preferable.

• Minimum 3-5 years of post-qualification legal/compliance work experience, preferably gained from life sciences, healthcare, consumer healthcare, nutrition sectors.
• Experience in working in multinational pharmaceutical company is highly preferred.

• Fluency in both written & spoken English and Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin).

• Strong legal acumen with sound knowledge in legal principles, corporate law, and regulatory frameworks.
• Proven leadership capabilities, with effective stakeholders’ management skills and be able to communicate with internal and external parties at all levels effectively.
• Demonstrated high adaptability in changing priorities and meeting tight deadlines.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment independently.

• Agile, flexible, energetic, reliable, trust-worthy, team player.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.